Shams: NBA is looking into allegations of Josh Giddey having inappropriate relationship with a minor

[John Murdoch]

The way the girl presents herself in social media is disturbing. Where are her parents?
Even if you manage to frame Giddey as a predator, she looks like she would do it again.

This whole next gen is basically like that tho , they prefer the life on their phone over their actual life

[GHOSTofSIKMA]

Fact. 15 year old boys can physically rape, by force, 99% of the women they would try it on. by the laws of all 50 states they both are committing rape if that was to occur.

Fact. Girls mature faster than boys physically.

Fact. Consent laws were put in place to control young WOMEN and protect their virginity for their wealthy usually white families. They were used to control women, not men of that age, but only women. These laws were not enforced on older woman with young men. There is a womans rights element to these laws.

Fact. Kids in general mature faster now then in those times these laws were written.

Fact. There NO EXCEPTIONS for statutory rape.

Opinion. This is an interesting topic for me as the father of 4 daughters age 13-22 hearing the mindboggling stories that have been told by them of wtf is going on around them over the last decade. Theres a hell of alot of gray in these things that the law doesnt account for in our modern age. To me this is kind of sad if he loses his career over it

[sfernald]

He did not have a relationship with a minor. She was of legal consenting age if he was 20 and she was 16. You have guys like Josh Primo and Miles Bridges in the league. It is a bad look and makes him look like a bit of a creep. This will be blown over shortly though and like I mentioned above he has not commited a crime.

In CA? And reportedly she was 14. Add another user to the rape brigade list!

[vado]

Unbelievable



I always thought Josh Giddey was gay

[Mavrelous]

Fact. 15 year old boys can physically rape, by force, 99% of the women they would try it on. by the laws of all 50 states they both are committing rape if that was to occur.

Fact. Girls mature faster than boys physically.

Fact. Consent laws were put in place to control young WOMEN and protect their virginity for their wealthy usually white families. They were used to control women, not men of that age, but only women. These laws were not enforced on older woman with young men. There is a womans rights element to these laws.

Fact. Kids mature faster now then in those times.

Fact. There NO EXCEPTIONS for statutory rape.

Opinion. This is an interesting topic for me as the father of 4 daughters age 13-22 hearing the mindboggling stories that have been told by them of wtf is going on around them over the last decade. Theres a hell of alot of gray in these things that the law doesnt account for in our modern age. To me this is kind of sad if he loses his career over it

I don't think you understand what "fact" means...

[dkb964]

He did not have a relationship with a minor. She was of legal consenting age if he was 20 and she was 16. You have guys like Josh Primo and Miles Bridges in the league. It is a bad look and makes him look like a bit of a creep. This will be blown over shortly though and like I mentioned above he has not commited a crime.

In CA? And reportedly she was 14. Add another user to the rape brigade list!

Another poster just said she is 18. You are trying to stir the pot.

[GHOSTofSIKMA]

Fact. 15 year old boys can physically rape, by force, 99% of the women they would try it on. by the laws of all 50 states they both are committing rape if that was to occur.

Fact. Girls mature faster than boys physically.

Fact. Consent laws were put in place to control young WOMEN and protect their virginity for their wealthy usually white families. They were used to control women, not men of that age, but only women. These laws were not enforced on older woman with young men. There is a womans rights element to these laws.

Fact. Kids mature faster now then in those times.

Fact. There NO EXCEPTIONS for statutory rape.

Opinion. This is an interesting topic for me as the father of 4 daughters age 13-22 hearing the mindboggling stories that have been told by them of wtf is going on around them over the last decade. Theres a hell of alot of gray in these things that the law doesnt account for in our modern age. To me this is kind of sad if he loses his career over it

I don't think you understand what "fact" means...

a couple of those are facts that are "generally regarded as facts".

3rd one in particular perhaps?

maybe the 1st if you thought 15 year old boys could force a different percentage of adult women to statutorily rape them then the 99% i estimated?

focus on the general point tho. grown ass 15 year old boys could force most women to have sex against their will. thats what makes it weird there are no exceptions and the ages are what they are. that woman, by law,is raping him back if that were to happen.

meanwhile we got 14-15 year old girls becoming millionaires selling sexuality with their bodies on tictoc trying to pretend theyre minors.

the whole thing is broken imo

[zimpy27]

Is it really true that in California that you can be one day short of 18 and someone can be one day older than 18, and you can't be intimate?

Yep, just looked it up. Some states have "Romeo & Juliet" laws allowing some leeway if the ages are close but California isn't one of them. So if this wen't to court and he was tried in CA he'd be guilty if the accusations are true.

That must be the most broken rule in California

[RunOKC]

Going to wait on actual info to come out before judging Josh as a person

but for people calling this a blow to the team the Thunder have actually played better without him and don't play him at the end of games outside of in-bounding the ball

[Mephariel]

Sucks for Giddey. He was already the odd man out in OKC, if the NBA decides to punish him severely, I think OKC wouldn't hesitate to trade him.

NBA players need to be more careful about who they are messing around with. The spotlight will always be around them.

Sucks for Giddey? More like sucks for the teenager involved.

How? Have you seen her content on tiktok? Hint: It's NSFW.

This is a girl who is out of control and desparate for attention, now that she hit puberty and "filled out". She needs to be reigned in by her parents. Because at this rate, she will find another older dude to sleep with before the year is over. So locking up Giddey isn't solving the problem.

You made it sound like Giddey is the minor and couldn't think. If she was so desperate for attention then maybe he shouldn't have a relationship with her especially if he knew she was a minor.

[___Rand___]

About time. I wondered if the league was going to wait till police are involved, but I'm glad they're not.

[___Rand___]

I think this is a huge distraction for a young rising OKC team. The faster they can resolve this, the better it is.

[axeman23]

I've seen the rumor being 16 or 17 because she is a junior.

I saw something on a previous thread about someone taking a screenshot of 1 of her accounts where she had celebrated her 18th birthday a few weeks ago. But who knows? Just need to wait for more facts to come out, I guess...

Yeh I saw that the girl in question just turned 18.

So she was 17 last year when he was 19 turning 20.

If she was 15 then that’s a huge no no, but if it’s a 2-3 year gap when she’s 17, I don’t see any issue.

I wish NBA players were smarter though. No need to be dating a 17 year old when you can go any get anyone you want.

Or alternatively, if she was sitting on the pics/story for 3 years, it'd be even weirder... But yeah, just wait and see, I guess.

[JustBuzzin]

Withholding judgement until all the facts come out but this isn't a good look. Difficult to prove this sort of thing in criminal court but we'll see. Bridges almost murdered his wife in front of their son and he's back like nothing happened, but giddey is also a significantly worse player so he could just end up blackballed.

If if it ends up that he knew this girl was like 15 or 16 and dated her, he shouldn't play in the nba again.

Why are you mentioning Bridges?

Bridges has his own thread.

Keep the focus on Giddey. Stop comparing his situation to Bridges. 2 totally different crimes yet they both are equally bad.

Seriously? It’s absurd to compare this to Bridges situation IMO

Now this is a weird comment.

Both are bad dude. Sleeping with a minor is nothing to be proud of. Pedophiles are the most disgusting people on earth imo.

[sfernald]

This is the general board you shouldn’t expect people to wait for facts before posting baseless speculation based off of unsourced Twitter threads claiming things.

If he did something wrong he should be punished. But no one here knows the truth right now.

Can anyone anyone please think of an example incident where something bad came out about an active NBA player like this and the whole thing turned out to be fabricated or the guy ended up with an innocent verdict? It might restore the GM board’s collective hope and faith in humanity.

Anthony Mason.

He pled to a lesser charge lol. That’s a guilty man with a good lawyer.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1998/06/25/Felony-charges-dropped-against-Mason/6844898747200/

[Scalabrine]

.....Besides Utah.

In a similar line of logic, Oklahoma and Utah are probably the only states who's fan bases might look past this thing

I’m a Jazz fan who regularly advocates for tearing down the Karl Malone statue because he’s a sexual predator. Still waiting on a Laker fan to similarly take a stand against the admitted rapist Kobe Bryant.

Kobe admitted that?

He's just another example of the NBA staying out of it when it comes to Sexual Assault and the like.

[dkb964]

Why are you mentioning Bridges?

Bridges has his own thread.

Keep the focus on Giddey. Stop comparing his situation to Bridges. 2 totally different crimes yet they both are equally bad.

Seriously? It’s absurd to compare this to Bridges situation IMO

Now this is a weird comment.

Both are bad dude. Sleeping with a minor is nothing to be proud of. Pedophiles are the most disgusting people on earth imo.

Unless this girl was like 8 or something he would not be classified as a pedofile. They have certain terms for different age ranges.

[Rainwater]

The old thread being locked was ridiculous. A real eyebrow raiser from the mod. There clearly is evidence. We have eyes. I think the question is more was she the age of consent in the state of Oklahoma which is 16 right?

An unverified image from a random, untrustworthy, and now-deleted X account with an unsubstantiated caption isn't 'clearly' evidence of anything, let alone statutory rape. There's a ton of misinformation and other garbage on X, so it was locked until more credible information, such as an official investigation, came forth.

And yes, the age of consent in Oklahoma is 16, but the incident reportedly occurred in California where the age of consent is 18.

I am really happy mods aren’t helping pushing unverified information this quickly leads to fake news. Please use real information guys, just because someone post something online doesn’t mean it’s credible.

[JustBuzzin]

Seriously? It’s absurd to compare this to Bridges situation IMO

Now this is a weird comment.

Both are bad dude. Sleeping with a minor is nothing to be proud of. Pedophiles are the most disgusting people on earth imo.

Unless this girl was like 8 or something he would not be classified as a pedofile. They have certain terms for different age ranges.

Underage is underage.

[sfernald]

He did not have a relationship with a minor. She was of legal consenting age if he was 20 and she was 16. You have guys like Josh Primo and Miles Bridges in the league. It is a bad look and makes him look like a bit of a creep. This will be blown over shortly though and like I mentioned above he has not commited a crime.

In CA? And reportedly she was 14. Add another user to the rape brigade list!

Another poster just said she is 18. You are trying to stir the pot.

That’s not a good argument for him, so don’t expect it to go that way. As another poster said, his best hope is to pay off the girl and then she denies that they had sex. That is doable. They can’t pretend she’s younger. Her age will be known and is a simple irrefutable fact unless you are an international NBA player apparently Actually considering this maybe Giddey’s best argument is that he’s only 17. I’m sure Australia would take care of that for him.